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Entry 3 senses Webster, 1913

Peanut gallery

· Pea·nut gal·ler·y · IPA
01 The cheapest seats in a theater, being typically those farthest from the stage, as in the uppermost balcony.
  1. 1.
    The cheapest seats in a theater, being typically those farthest from the stage, as in the uppermost balcony.
  2. 2.
    In a television show for children, the section where visiting children sit as guests during the performance.
  3. 3.
    Any group of children, or the chidren in a group of people; as, let's have no noise from the peanut gallery.[Colloq.]